verlangen
German, verb
verlangen is a German verb meaning “to ask for, demand” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verlangen is a different word: “desire, yearning, longing”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas von jemandem fordern, etwas haben wollen”.
What does verlangen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to ask for, demand
noun
- 1
neuterdesire, yearning, longing
- 2
neuterrequest, wish, demand
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. stark ausgeprägter Wunsch; körperlicher, seelischer, geistiger Drang, einen empfundenen Mangel auszugleichen 2. nachdrücklich geäußerter Wunsch
verb: 1. etwas von jemandem fordern, etwas haben wollen 2. etwas notwendig machen, erfordern 3. mit jemandem (am Telefon) sprechen wollen 4. jemanden oder etwas benötigen, unbedingt brauchen, bei sich haben wollen
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of verlangen
- Verlangens genitive
- verlangt present singular third-person
- verlangte past
- haben auxiliary
- verlangend participle present
- verlange first-person indicative present
- verlangst indicative present second-person
- verlangest second-person singular subjunctive
- verlanget plural second-person subjunctive
- verlangten first-person indicative plural
- verlangtest indicative preterite second-person
- verlangtet indicative plural preterite
- verlang imperative second-person singular
- verlange! imperative singular
- verlangt! imperative plural
- verlangt haben active infinitive perfect
- verlangt werden processual-passive infinitive present
- verlangt worden sein processual-passive infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to verlangen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is verlangen in German?
verlangen appears 37 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).